Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently Representative Robert Low Bacon of New York, son of Robert Bacon, Secretary of State under Roosevelt and Ambassador to France under Taft, introduced a bill into Congress. Last week General Emilio Aguinaldo who led the Philippine insurrection over 25 years ago, now a good and pro-U. S. citizen in the Islands was moved to register his emphatic protest against the Bacon bill...
...Northwestern University assembled at the north edge of Chicago to lay and dedicate four cornerstones of a new unit of that thriving institution, whose headquarters are farther up Lake Michigan, at Evanston, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. George Alexander McKinlock had given the campus in memory of their warrior son.. Mrs. Montgomery Ward had given a medical-dental centre, a 14-story Gothic building, in memory of her merchant (mailorder) husband. The widow of Levy Mayer, famed attorney, had given a hall of law. Judge Elbert H. (U. S. Steel) Gary of Manhattan had given a law library...
...Manhattan between 1885 and 1915. He chose the wines that J. P. Morgan offered his guests. James Hazen Hyde, one winter night, gave in his restaurant a costume ball which is said .to have been the most brilliant event** in the social history of the city. He was the son of a Vermont carpenter of French descent; he worked as a waiter in the Hotel Brunswick and, when the management discharged him, the patrons whom he had pleased helped him to start a place of his own. It is said that he knew by a customer's bearing what...
Died. John Diedrich Spreckels, 72, after week of illness; at Coronado, Calif. He was the eldest son of the late Claus Spreckles, who expanded his Philadelphia grocery business to control much of the U. S. sugar trade. The sons?John Diedrich, Adolph Barnard (died 1924), Claus August (president, Federal Sugar Refining Co.) and Rudolph (spells his name "Spreckles," onetime fighter of California political corruption)?all went into the sugar business. John Diedrich. went furthest, developed the Pacific islands sugar trade, pioneered transpacific shipping to carry his products, broadened into finance, philanthropic and civic activities...
...Louis XIV affair of such splendor that a prurient public demanded to know by what right the son of Henry B. Hyde (founder of the Equitable Life) entertained like an emperor. At the next Princeton Commencement festive graduates carried a three-sided transparency inscribed: "The Simple Life; The Strenuous Life; The Equitable Life." Finally Mr. Charles Evans Hughes bounded into prominence by conducting an investigation into the methods of insurance concerns, which bore fruit in much salutory legislation...